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Hi guys. Where in the world do you find laptops you can build yourself. No matter the price range or budget. Anywhere from 400-and beyond. I have not found a place to build budget laptops or a place to find barebones to build super high end laptops with sli and such.

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Right. This question comes up at least every two weeks:

Current "barebone" providers:
Asus
MSI
Clevo
Compal

Still might be floating around:
ECS
Quanta
Mitac


Message edited by dwellman on 10-22-2008 at 04:44:31 PM
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give OCZ a try.
Their notebooks I belive have nvidia 8600m GT 512mb.

------------------------------ Lenovo T500 | P8600 - DDR3 2gb dualdimm - ATI 3650 256mb
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Oh. . . right. Them. I keep forgetting.

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Personally, I don't think there is any benefit from a DIY laptop. Laptop CPU prices on newegg and such actually tend to be pretty high, and it's not like you really get to choose what video card you want. You are stuck with whatever comes with the chassis. It can almost be as cheap to get a custom order from sagernotebook.com or such.

 

As far as the OCZ recommendation goes, take a look at the newest release from OCZ. They just launched a 17'' laptop that comes with either a single 9800mGTX, HD3870 or crossfired 3870's. I have seen some performance numbers and it looks very promising.


Message edited by lostandwandering on 10-25-2008 at 06:47:42 AM
------------------------------ LAPTOP: Sager NP5760|T7200|2gb DDR2-667| 100gb 7200rpm HDD| 512mb 7950GTX|17'' WUXGA

Desktop: Core2 E7200 | Corsair 2gb DDR2-800 | Gigabyte EP35-DS3L | 250gb Seagate Barracuda | MSI GTX260 (192 SP) | Corsair VX550 | Antec 300 case
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